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The internet couldn't stop this death

2024/11/4
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The tragic story of Peanut, a beloved squirrel raised by an influencer, who was taken by the state and euthanized due to licensing issues, sparks outrage and debate online.
  • Peanut was a domesticated squirrel with a large social media following.
  • The influencer lacked the proper license for keeping wild animals.
  • Peanut was euthanized after being taken by state authorities for rabies testing.

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Hey, it's came command today, your daily podcast, to keep you up to date with all things digital and beyond. And i'd love to have you be a part of our podcast. You can make IT an appointment to speak with just had over two commanded a common on the top right.

There's a button, this email, kim, go let out and that hit. So if there's a buz word of twenty twenty four, I would say it's intelligence because of A I, yes, artificial intelligence, apple intelligence, which let me tell you that apple intelligence just it's great. It's fabulous. And so l in month .

of december, they always year and and then they do that word thing I don't know, it's called there's is a name for IT where it's .

like one .

big word in the middle, in the medium .

sized words around. And so the region I bring this up is that microsoft, you're going to rename co pilot to be windows intelligence.

obviously. Now I want to use before coiloo window intelligent sounds like a winner.

You is going to be so smart. It's going to give you the finger of mogi before the blue screen and depth tired.

Give me clippy, clippy going to come out. Give me the finger OK OK.

If anybody y's listenin microsoft, if you want to get a trending video, you you will, you will go vial. If you're going to have clip, you come out and gave you the b the finger right before .

that blue screen when .

the first and that have, you know, welcome is came came today, each front podcast about all things digital. And by the way, this is not the kim command show. I have to bring this up because I was looking at a car on saturday.

Okay, uh, they were just rolled in the twenty twenty five, uh, new G. V. agents. And I wanted to see what they're looking because I it's like, all was said now it's gonna a touch screen. I'm like, oh, well, come to twenty .

four three sons, never touch me before.

No, no, you had a stupid dial in the middle.

But I read an article just this morning that analog buttons are coming back at. People get sick. Touch Greens. Well.

that comes very sad just in time, in time. So I was looking at that and then and then I was looking at also looking .

at a ford bronco.

I was pretty well they just write and trade. So so I was because something about, you know, maybe like, you know, just bronco just kind of mess around IT and with bronco was like I was made to go for wheeling bright okay like the roof comes off and and so roja dog and my salesmen, who i've known for over twenty five years um he's like and less real name was that is not Roger dodgers but it's I call him .

they Roger OK those real name his parent said he said humor .

can Roger dog and so so it's like everything's going great to shown me this and he's like i'm looking for you can get in .

and it's got these but it's a good quality .

for you got big old tires. You got a big tired in the back so you can go four whelm on the beach and and there's a spot and I get in the car and there's a spot for snorkel.

a small spot like all my 所 think I was in there.

but it's not yeah so that so when .

you go into the water, oh, you'll survive. Tls need .

those like exactly i'm like Roger, I don't need a truck with the sore cle.

Even the fact of this might go in the water is not how much for whaling do you do for my foreign? You do zero percent if you're driving.

I've had a four by four a vehicle. Pray for the last twenty years.

Good use never .

have got for me.

Let me know, do you wagon? I know it's pretty, know it's status. Most uncomfortable vehicle i've ever been in.

In my entire life, i've got a car service from any quarter as washington to seattle. So I get two hour drive. They picked this up, energy wagging IT was mean, my two little babies, my two little kids.

And so, you know, it's not like there's a ton of people in the car and we get to the airport. And my sounds like, man, that's a rough ride and my daughter, like I was so uncomfortable and i'm like, you know, that's like a hundred thousands of a vehicle. We just got out of that cost of more than two of daddies cars. I thought IT too.

I thought I was very uncomfortable. Well.

did you sit the back? I send the front seat.

They send the back. See the back. The bag can be a little rough. okay? And especially if you have .

like somebody like e and driving. So it's like we just feel .

everything I don't know if that's the maybe IT G G 6 three。 The g sixty three is the higher in, okay? And like there are some people who buy the g five fifty, they take off the five fifty on the back, and they could buy on ebay the g sixty three. They put IT on chickle .

rumor to have done that. The NBA baseball player, really, he went bound like the lowest grade bmw, and then IT there so they could switch out the badgers because he wanted to save some money.

But as I was saying, yes, sorry, this is not the kim command to show. If you're looking for the show.

we're still talking .

about how to bring this. I'm getting to this .

OK sorry work .

with sometimes you're so hard to work with.

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I'm waiting for the connection to happy. So you're looking for the show. That's the big show on over. Like I don't know exactly an station right is that you can get the km command show wherever your podcasts to search for command with okay. Now the reason why I am bringing on this up is that on saturday, when I was looking with Roger dog at the twenty twenty five g wagon, see how it's all coming around is if Roger said, oh, I said, I said, is that the g wagon out there and it's like, oh, no, no, no, that's so and so g wagon that they just bought, he said, but the guy who the Mercedes guy who sitting in the room with them loves your podcast.

Did you just say which one? Yeah and I, kim commander today.

yes. And I said, what about the show course?

It's never good enough. It's if you can take the win, say, thank you. Thank you. Go about your day. What about the show about .

the other five?

Do you get the newsletter? Come here. Give me your first foord child.

I can't. Did that? Sure, you didn't. Did well, not the first brand child. But you wouldn't .

become commander if you didn't.

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course I did. And I even going to work to the woman on the front desk and like, hey, how are you shoes? Like, you want to buy a water? And like, no, you want to send from a newsletter.

Did did you buy the car? No.

why not? Well, i'm kind of trying to figure out what i'm doing in car land. Okay, you know, so because I really I really like prince Albert.

I don't know what that is. I know I know that like urban dictionary definition of prince self.

Is that okay? I name my cars.

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which ones prints over? He's over. Blue is the portion OK so OK he's out.

His prince, alright? okay. And so like my g my goin car, her name's Greta. okay?

A going to get .

a got IT from germany. sure. So .

anyway, i'm just trying for you what i'm car land so you trying to figure .

out and and ends like, yeah but you can swap cars and sure you just get the seat right yeah and just like you get in.

it's really nice is there are a lot of differences besides the touch screen between the g wag and you have in the one you .

just looked that IT has a different bumper in the front by IT.

I don't even know what you're waiting for .

by a right now you know like .

cancelled show show the cameras off. She's got to go get this bumper.

It's a different bumper in the front and you can get carbon fiber on the spirit tire on the back because joy's need spare .

tire to love because you know when you driving .

A G wag and and that breaks down, you are definitely going to be the one that takes out the spare tire.

Bring cash this afternoon.

Go get that bump. What are you talking about?

The unfortunately, instagram is lost, one of its influencer in a story that is going absolutely viral right now. really? Yes, sad. Really, it's weird IT IT borders from weird to sad is IT confusing.

I saw the headline, I didn't. I don't know the story.

so you don't know .

anything about IT. I don't want to give the spoiler, but I just know what happened. But I don't really .

understand everything that I supervise.

All right, let's see. What are we pitching now? Who's letter? I phone? I think .

we've said all we haven't subscribe.

You do IT.

We crossed the eight thousand mark. We are less than two thousand people away from having hundred thousand followers on youtube.

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thank you so much. If you haven't subscribed, what is your problem? A little easy. Hey, hey, hey.

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hundred thousand. Okay, see, that was nice. Okay, I died off. Yeah, I just had that button.

But feels good that feels good.

Here's some things that are happening. Cybercriminals are sending emails. Okay, okay, that did not know that when you click the link gives you a capture so you have to like fill IT out so you're says like i'm not a robot, okay? And then after you do that, it's gonna.

Oh, we have a mistake. We need you to press win the windows key in the letter r, which is like to run something right. You get here with malware, but don't .

read your emails, don't need your text message, actually lock your phone up in a safe at the only way prety much to stay safe online. Are you paranoid? Are you internet paranoid that you've been hat when something weird? Your phone, no, you i'm .

smarter than ick on junk.

Okay, but do you don't think there's someone could get your phone that can make a copy of your phone? You can get stolen somehow? You're not. You protect yourself more than most I do, but you're still not a hundred percent.

So are you say I worried about IT?

I don't know. I'm just international paranoid like when a weird email comes in i'm just like old gosh, is this been hacked and I go check my bank counts .

and my if you had an iphone instead that stupid same sung and then you wouldn't be like all weird about IT okay.

just say I looked in this reading back this weekend. Wait much money, way too much running.

Tell you do that mistake. Sam used to sing.

get IT same sung I got IT .

I got IT move. Oh, i'm so excited season to a ID game they drop .

the trail can't tell if that was just no. I like IT something that was written for you to say use the legitimately a fan no.

I actually like good. I didn't think I would be because it's like, okay, let's just show vote to the death right OK and it's pretty gory.

I mean, don't hold back, but it's great.

It's a great show.

It's so well right now. Did you watch the reality version of IT?

No, you should do that. You should watch IT.

really?

yes.

So they after squid game, they did a real life squid game. Now obviously no one dies, but it's the same games. And people get eliminated, but they have those like blood packs in their suits.

So if they do get eliminated, IT blows up like they were shot. But it's really good. I was a really good real version to .

go on a real ID game.

They're casting squid games series too right now. Are they? Yeah, in my best friend's wife made IT like the fourth round of the casting.

How come i'm just finding out about this?

I don't know. Just because you're never only internet and because you wouldn't take a month off of work to go film reality show, I would know .

if i'm going to take a month of i'm going like sAiling around the midterm, ian, right?

Yet you're to be competing with john y from knock d to see who can like the political the fastest.

No, john, it's final. Hope you at the up here at the four seas and 因为 OK it's fine but they're dropping IT on december twenty six .

day right after Christmas festive。 And I definite i'm excited. I'm not a big TV watcher. I don't watch this time of shows, but I will watch this.

I lost a fashion retailer, mango. They said, we are done with real models. Oh, okay, we are going to be using just A I generated models for our fashioned line. Uh, a human model cause at least thirty five dollars an hour look like from A I cost thirty dollars a month.

Pretty good, pretty good trade off. Now, I D I read about this. They are actually seen a lot of success.

They test to you for a while. They are ads with the AI models and their ads with real models. And they're getting Better responses with because obviously in its first perfection. But how do they get the the AI models is very specific company that can put real products into these images.

Oh, for sure. Oh night. So they just have to like have a little model, do something and then they just take her clothes off or put new clothes on OK virtual.

yes, there's nothing underneath. The dress is just once in zero.

And then so you have the A I model and you got a real model. okay? So you're not paying you know as much for the A I model but they have at least one .

thing in common what's there?

They're diet exactly neither when is .

not sorry either .

that neither one eats. Um okay. So the beetles one when they had that new release in the late nineties.

was this the a track you were playing .

in your g egg IT was like they're greatest hit. Okay, it's sold seven point six nine million copies in a year. Okay.

in the late ninety.

Yes, in late ninety. But there is member in this up as that. I remember buying like cds for the greatest hits. You know do you know all that's done now? Do you .

remember the last C D you purchased? Yes, which what was .

IT IT was probably about three months ago. Oh what yes, here i'll tell you away. Three months ago um I bought like a whole compilation of grammy hits OK and it's they're actually really good cities.

So you can go from like the titanic to like hello di. Then you go like to some other like like B S hat. Let go.

So like this whole thing of like music from all the way up to like baby, like the twenty fifteen s now here's the reason why, you know, in this whispering house that I built with nine hundred and fifty smart devices, a and you all the music streaming and everything just all so fabulous is that we that bury my husband, he threw like an outlier. There is that he is something called the marine system. OK more is a high end audio.

K, beautiful speakers, really fabulous out. Um IT has A C D player, right? And IT has an internet tuna. But you have to use title to I dl in order to get the streaming services. I mean.

just like that's a weird one for them. Yes, work out a .

deal with exact a hip hop stuff. yeah. no. K, come on on.

I'm gondo making. Did ah you want grandma's? You don't want, like, listen to two chains. all.

We can all long we can planning .

nothing to cook with and .

not that might like some smooth jazz me music o and so .

there's not enough variety for your taste on title so you still have to listen to .

see this yeah and so i'm trying to figure how to get apple music to to that whole system. So so all this was going and there's an apple mini ipad, many sitting right there. I'm like, I just want to listen to music, okay? I don't want to to go with through like eight thousand generations, just put on some music.

So you retreated back to old technology.

So I have cities in there.

You have to go and switch the C.

D. O, yes, you do. and. One city at a time.

So much to have one of those big books are city that you keep them all.

It's funny that you ask, said, I found various book of cds.

That's a crazy realism in the c know, you have nine hundred things that connect to the internet, but you're listening.

The CD isn't that ridiculous. It's just mind blowing. IT is k, so only me back to my story, right?

Is that biggest heads are done. Yeah, just done. That's IT. All right. During the dallas cowboys game against the .

family yesterday.

cowboy's head coach micco thy, yes, he was caught on camera doing something after a failed fourth dow play. Yeah, here, take a look to .

a line for this dance couple is offence. Frustration continues to mount.

okay. So for those of you are listening to the audio version, might got a little frustrated .

with his microsoft .

service.

Thank to be on on those fell side lines.

And he picked IT up in its protective case and IT down.

Did you know that that had A A like, a neck, a shoulder strap as well. What was .

that case? I GTA hold my ipad exactly, not my ipad, my microsoft tablet. I'm sure I .

didn't break because I was in that protective case.

What do you think was wrong with IT?

Nothing was wrong with that. I was wrong was he was watching jack, per Scott, tried to pick up a first down against the focus.

And when they didn't do, IT said, I thought for sure like he was looking down on IT and trying to figure out the place and then wait. And then microsoft, the surface that becomes something goes windows update by all screen goes like this has .

windows turn on IT. If you'd like more support, you have to pay thirty dollars a year.

Throw out. We've all been there, mike. He just trying .

to watch another team on hooo, and he could remember his. So they .

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We are giving away that iphone sixteen. So hey, come on. Time is running out.

Folks running out. You want to go to win from kim 点 com。 And again, that's win from kim 点 com。 Win from kim 点 com。 You know the spin .

of our newsletter? Yes, no one. But okay.

I was when I said win from kim. Okay, you have to help me connect to dot sometime because see, when I say went from him, you you know is no purchase required.

right? We used to say that you going to get when you stop saying that. So I didn't know if IT was still connected that was still OK saw an opportunity to make fun of a pound don IT again, awful. okay.

Speaking of the newsletter, speaking of the news, are every day for I don't know for i'm not last couple of days, we get like three to five thousand new subscribers.

That's like thirty five thousand a week.

Yeah, it's crazy. That is crazy. yeah. So it's so that's what happens with products. When you release the product, it's like it's like slow go. It's like and then containers off and IT goes up, goes up, goes up, goes up, goes up, up, up, up, up.

How closer you to a million?

We're closer to six hundred thousand, okay?

But that's still a lot of people not laughing. I just want to be the millions subscribers. And I need to know when I need to focus in and pay attention because I ve never skype the newsletter, but I can when the I found.

I mean, it's IT hurts my heart.

I just wanted be the million.

You can get another email address for that.

I mean, that sounds like fraud.

We would never was, of course. I so tell me about instagram is going on there.

Is this animal sanction in new york? IT is this Young guy? He's really attractive.

Dude, really sweet. Like, ever look at someone going, I know they're a good person. Yeah, there just a nice person.

And he has a an account, social media. And seven years ago, he saw a mom squirl get hit by a car and died. Oh, and the mom had a little baby. And because he saves animals, he saves all kinds of animals. He took the score in and raised, and it's been seven years that this he in this girl have been attached at the .

hit seven years. Yes.

how, tina.

how want to schools live?

No idea OK. I just learn that you don't pronounce ce, zoloft, st. zoo. I expect it's so I don't .

know anything about animals.

I'm going to guess the school lives four hundred years doesn't make all right. You think we have, you want. So he starts point in posted videos.

S, of peanut online. Ut, the squirl, yes. And peanuts. Ts, a huge following. He is the favorite thing to do with peanut is set at the breakfast table. And they each have a waffle, and they share waffles with each other.

Oh, the squirl needs .

a waffle with this too little hands. It's orb. I mean, everything he does is adorable. He comes home from work, puts his hand out the square, jumps right into his hand, he'll open up his side pocket and the squirl jumps in his pocket because he knows that there's a treat in there and it's all grow around trying to find a new bad words.

a treat inside of his pocket. Not that.

So he's going viral. Five hundred thousand people on instagram, thousand hundreds of thousands of followers on tiktok. And all of the money that he's making from his social channels he's using to fund his sancy to .

take her in the forces is like a same. This guy, absolutely.

it's a true nonprofit. All the money makes on social media. I M, he works, works in ninety five job.

But the money makes on social media goes to helping animals. This guy loves animals. Wednesday, knock at the door. He opens the door. And IT is a state department and they have a search warrant to come in the house and to take peanut. And the record, he also has a .

red that is so. So what grounds?

There was complaints filed online by viewers to his channel saying that he doesn't have a license to have a wild animal in his home in the state of new york. He does have a animal license, but not for a squirrel or or red.

The record he should have.

that he should have, obviously. And that there was a video of him getting bit by the squirl, and that's the video that prompted the complaint. And that's how they got the search point. They entered the house, they started. They made him .

before there. Is that a big bite?

I didn't see the video of the vite. This was just part of one of the ideas I saw of someone described in the situation, so I can't confirm that. But later in the story, we can they haven't .

set outside for five hours.

We will not let him back in his house. They're questioning the immigration status of his girlfriend, who lives in the residence. IT helps with the animal santurri they terror apart his bedroom. Two cases draws in .

the record. correct?

They get both animals and they were removed them from Francis. He's trying to figure out what's going on. He's contacting officials. He wants to get his peanut back. And he finds out on friday that the squirl and the icon on both utilized.

no.

yes, because they needed to test them for rabbies. And the way to test an animal for service is to decapitated and tested.

Oh, i'm sad.

It's so heartbreaking. Now there's a lot of ways. Disco s, first of all, the internet very upset that the government came and took away a square.

There is tons of evidence online that you can see. This is a indoor squirl does not leave the house that is a train squirl does so many tricks. And IT is a family pet, not a wild animal.

Now, again, letter of the law. Yeah, needed to have department to have the score. There's no other .

way to check for babies other than to decapitate.

There is one other way. But IT takes like twelve days of multiple levels of testing. But the way the state agency does IT is they decapitate the animal to find out.

do we know of the head rabies? He did. He did not know. What about the red?

Don't know about the red cream. I think it's fred. I think it's Richard red. I could be a Ricky. One of the two not as popular as peanut .

and peanut did not have babies, and they killed peanut. Yes, that is hard.

So he can't even get the remains back because the the head is destroyed and he is so upset. He's already got a lawyer and a lawsuit suing the state to try to figure out, and all the revenue for his annual santa comes through the social media of peanut. And now he's worried that he's gna have to get rid of all these animals or find other homes for them, or not be able to take care of.

I am sure I can do a girl for me .

there going to go for me. He's raised tunes here. He has go for me up because IT is an on profit.

He's getting tons of donations. But he says right now is going to use that for his legal fees. Here's another part of IT.

There is a woman who is a photographer who for some reason when online said she's the one who made the complaint no, yes, I know she's kidding. Death threads and she's taken down all her social media. Now there's two sides of this story.

A lot of people say I was a fake account. I'm not even going to use your name. I'm not even going to go there. IT was a fake count of mimic turn name that went up to take credit for IT because it's someone who doesn't like her and she's getting attacked and she's left social media because SHE doesn't know why, what, what's going on. There's another side of the internet that says, no, this SHE really did this SHE really did care of take credit for turning him in and he left social media because she's scared, because she's being attacked, because this is gone so viral.

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my god, what a crazy story. This is a crazy story. I mean, but you can't wait a week, two weeks to find out, to have the courts talk about this. You cut the schools head off within two days.

Yeah, this seems very extreme.

And at ten, you to ten minute deep dive into social channels, you would see, this is not a squirrel. This is not the quote, quote squirl.

You would see, run into the party. Somebody, you know what? The squirl, I know what sounds crazy, but this girl has a big social media following OK. So we probably need to proceed maybe a little bit differently than a squirl that we find in a park.

Well, just to let this play out. And they know that this, these are pets. There's a video of the reckon laying in bed and it's got covers up to its neck and he pulls back the covers and the actions like no and grabs the covers and pulls the back like, this isn't a wild animal, as in cotton wild animal. These are pets. These are household.

family pets. Yeah, some people's idea. Pet, I mean, people can we listen? Don't like.

you know, a pet is a dog or a fish.

bea fish, just get a new one. I should down tell you. But kids don't never know.

That's why I thought this is so outrageous that they didn't buy a little time because of how much is known of .

this animal. No, this is a pear nightmare.

It's going, it's definitely going to be. I mean, the internet is in full throat right now, going after everyone involved. And i'm hard broken for this guy. I show, yes.

we should never get them on the show. We have to get them on the show.

We'll have pictures of peanut, this huge painting that made peanut, and he's balling because he is heartbroken.

So how do we recover out of this? Now I just brought the whole room down.

Go support peanut. Go online washes, videos help this sanctuary you to get funding.

Funding from social is absolutely hundred percent.

hundred percent. I'm .

pretty sure IT is. And I like me. The charity .

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It's came commander today. We are so glad that you're here with us. Don't forget to like comments here and you are those likes and comments are super work because we talk about big tech of law here on the kim mental show because they keep track everything that we do everything and they show us what they think that we want to see um and so they would have these curated fees and they keep track of everything that we do. Miss.

the look on your face is so much of disgust.

That's something because I never thought about .

making money that very just that's jealousy thing, not discussed, just jealous, wrong .

emotion apology on .

a because if you did, you'd be like all and we track everything.

You do a big smile, but hope we don't know. So anyway, so so with big tech, what you wanted do is make sure that you like and and maybe drop a comment or two because that tells google's big algorithms, especially on youtube, that you want to see more of me and I know that you do you maybe don't want to see more of Andrew, I get that yeah was thinking that there there's a song that I heard this morning that .

on your C D. Player or was this from your viros? Er, how are you listening .

to this song on my iphone and apple music? OK, and it's from lady gaga. Go down to tel.

Have you ever heard? And the first couple of lines, I thought I need to play this for anger. why? Because it's like i'm blond, i'm skinny, i'm rich and sometimes i'm a beat.

Okay, I think he was being mocking and you're taking, this is like an anthem hers with sarcasm. You're print of t shirts this great.

I think you're going to play that everywhere I go, everywhere I go. alright. So what's going on with microsoft? Microsoft a lot about .

microsoft may be they got that micros intelligence ah. How many? Okay, how may I ask you a couple questions? Not expecting you, them, you to get them right. But how many google searches globally do you think happened every single year?

Oh way, every year I have no I .

something. Just take a short.

dark. Five trillion.

two trillion close, which is a lot of search. Yes, eighty nine percent of all searches on the internet happen on google the world.

Yes.

that's a lot. That's a lot. Now, microsoft, they have their own thing.

Is that called being you?

Because the rest of the globe happened because only four percent of the internet searches happen on big, big. But that's enough to get them second place. But that's not good enough.

Now for microsoft. O I what this is other dad I had, oh, the edge, microsoft edge. That's the browser for microsoft. Percentage of mobile users, do you think use microsoft edge? I like this one.

Two point five percent?

Yes, exactly.

Half a percent. Oh my god, I told I need to .

go in jeopardy. So my stuff wants to change this. I don't know why I don't know why they just don't abandon IT kick being to the side and get away from me when I have an idea of why. But they want more people to use edge and to use being and they're offering a one million dollar prize if you do so.

Um let's have anything do with elan.

must you every of the polls don't go there. No, but i'm wondering, okay, this is the biggest prize theyve ever given out in any of reward. You have to enroll in the microsoft rewards program I have. okay. And then you have to go and do a being surge.

I don't use that. Go go and .

download microsoft edge and use that browse. And then you stack up all these points. And once you get point, you can buy entries and you can interact to two hundred times to win the one million dollars.

There's also other Prices of ten thousand dollars, depending on the region in, the country in. But the big prizes in million box. And this is the biggest problem. And they used to give away five hundred box a thousand dollars.

I think I signed up because I was trying to hear how IT worked like a USA today article or something like that OK. And like as as you start using being it's like you made like ten cents, right?

But they do have these drives, these giveaway and this is the biggest whenever. So the question is why? Why are they given a million dollars away for something that they know? People really, we aren't going on a use.

Is IT about data? Is IT getting you to sign up for microsoft rewards? Is that IT once you've got once you have signed up for the i'm sure .

going to make a lot more money off the data, okay, then a million box, why we are in the wrong business in that, that no, no, that's that's for that's all all. But IT gets some people like us.

We are talking about IT, but what's realistically is IT impossible to get people .

to switch from google. Everybody is so used to use and go.

It's just become the verb .

of searching for something the, I know I it's got a mortal wound. I mean, that ChatGPT is pretty amazing OK.

We talked about this action on friday show that you use the ChatGPT search. How long is that going to take to get people because .

you're paying for twenty boxes up.

not everyone's going to pay for even if it's amazing, they're not going to pay. People will pay for netflix, and netflix is really pretty. But a how are they are going to get the people to leave google and go over to ChatGPT if they can't get IT to go to being which is free?

Um well, they're be rolling out the search GPT free over the next couple months right now. It's just for people who are and I think it's phenomenon. I think there's no sponsors, there's no ads. You see the sources you're not dealing with um the bias of google germany, you know why people don't realize this, but you know there are companies that google is hired to go over germanized answers to make sure that it's legit. So those people have what biases absolutely and they maybe their morals or different than intelligence.

If it's all being that filtered by humans is still humans.

So that's that's why sometimes you look at IT, you're like, I mean, most recently I went I went to take google. Did I talk about this about prayer? I don't think so, kay. So I just put into prayer for your friend who's having .

heart surgery. okay. Now why did you do with this a test? Or do you seriously need to pay?

I really, really wanted to send a friend of mine who was getting a bypass. And you know him? I just wanted to say, who is OK? He was getting bypass. And I thought, no, I was just a little prayer to his phone and so he can, you know, he can get the text so i'm not a religious person.

What does that mean? Send them a player.

It's just like, it's like a little image OK say, like, you know.

but you can come up with one in your own.

You just, I just, I wanted an image OK because I had already, I had already texted him, likes, say, I was praying for you and family and then I also said i'm going to have buried, deliver some holy water and here's how you use the holy water. So i've already done all that right, something extra really want .

to think of them.

So so I said no prior for her patient was a friend and then A I overview comes in, says. Pair does not do anything for a heart patient. Okay, then you know what I said underneath. I even captured the screen underneath. That is said per could actually complicate the surgery.

So stop playing game. What are you going to do?

Kill your friend. Exactly how if I say a prayer, is that going to complicate the service?

Actually studies that are the opposite yes, that even its just positive vibes or whatever it's not whatever it's not the divine intervention of god, but prayer can be hell with any sort .

of so body to somebody who worked for one of those companies decided that prayer is not helpful. The matter friend of my and heard, right so I don't like I just want a little picture .

of prayer with chat ChatGPT search. This is not an issue. No, there's no human .

and intervention. And now i'm sure there is okay, but I haven't experienced that type of biases. Yes, I did with A I over bit you know when you think about bang good, have you used .

being one time one just because when I came out yeah and our was that a decade ago?

Well, I tried IT because we know google has with their search has consistently been getting worse over time. And so I thought, well, maybe I should try being so I went to big. But you know, being is like that store bot cereal. No, I may like like this store label cereal, right? OK it's GTA get the job done being going back .

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We talk a lot about data brokers here on the complemental show. why? Because IT is just insane, how much information is out there about all of us. And these data broker companies, they don't care if they just sell anybody who comes along. IT could be a stalker, identity theft, whatever may be.

Marketing companies, advertising companies, I mean, they know what you buy, where you live, even your phone number, I mean, and again, they will sell IT to anybody, anybody who is willing to give them any sort of money. Well, joining us right now is a million ideas from a cognitive and she's going to a help us pull back the curtain after digg into these data workers. SHE discovered that they're not just data collectors, that they're enablers because they actually give scammers all the information that they need to strike. I mean, thank you so much for being here with us on kim commander today.

Thank you god to be here.

And so um you did a whole bunch of research with the dad of brokers and elder scams and uh what did you find out?

So our researchers, based on the data from F B I, from the internet crime a complaint center and we try to determine how much of the crime that older people um report to FBI is actually enabled by the accessibility of their data and we discovered that more than half of the crime report are actually uh coming from the crimes that uh like needs to like that they are facilitated by the personal information. So this is this is quite a big number. Uh, and I got the the types of crimes that are happening to people like of course there are there are different types of crimes. What was very surprising is actually that the the most common, the most frequent um crime is a technical support crime.

you know and everybody always falls for that, right? I mean because you know this is face IT, your windows machine IT acts up and you're think they are going like, well, I don't know. Maybe I should just call microsoft o and older adults, they think about that.

They go into google, they type in microsoft tech support. And I really paying in attention because that's the other part of the problem, is that google will sell an add to anybody who just comes along. And so the the older dot will click that and then you'll just go ahead and then they'll get sgam's um by whoever comes along.

But you know have a question for you because just speaking about that data brokers and scams and if if I wanted to buy a list of, say, I don't know, see fifty thousand people over the age of seventy who have maybe a networks of five hundred thousand dollars and they own their own home and they have a windows computer. And I I give all these different program ters. Do the data brokers actually like call you up and say, hey, why do you need this information? ican? Or do they just go ahead and sell IT?

They don't ask anybody a question like if you want to buy any type of collective and organized information, they will definitely sales to to basically anyone that can be individual. Of course you can not. Can be some legit entities such as bank, insurance, company h but IT might be also a criminal. So IT really, really, there is no limit. Hold their telling this information to.

And and so where do they get all this information? They get IT from public records. They get IT from apps that are using private databases. I mean, IT seems like whether we go, they're collecting data about us and then somebody selling .

IT exactly every time we go on the internet. And we are so gic for something or every time we are registering for a new slater or for loyalty program for an APP, every time we are leaving behind some, some set of information and they are just waiting for you to collect IT, to to handle IT, to process IT and organize that those spaces. Ts, and like basically data of you and me, or like IT, IT might be in any exercise, ts, with different names for different purpose and basically might be sold to to anyone. And and so you know.

so what in cognitive does folks is they go out there and they go to all these data worker sides, these people search sites, and then they will remove your persons information from these sites. And I will tell you first hand experience, amazing.

I get zero robo calls, zero text messages from spammers and scams and it's just it's just so lovely not to be looking down and you see your phone and you're like, oh, is this a phone call that I need to get? Is an important that you answer is like, so we are trying to sell you and we will scare me. Well, that's not exactly what they say.

So I mean, one question um you've gotten me out of over six hundred and almost almost six hundred and fifty data open sites and which and people surge sites. And then there's also that impressionable and that's what in cognitive um how how hard is IT for you to do IT? Because I know it's almost impossible for me to do IT.

So how does economy how was coin able to do IT? Because I tried to get myself out of like out of like fifteen different sites and then I just said, forget IT, I got to find a Better way. And that's when I found your company.

And I tried to couple of others, but I settled on in. And then that's when I went to the sales folks and I said, okay, this is something that I love. And if I love IT, I know that I listeners and our viewers that they'll love IT too. But how are you guys able to do IT? And I mean, I just after fifteen sites, I just give .

up after the like the suppression. This is basically a list that um uh a data broker agrees to keep your information on a separate list. So we are having some kind of um um CoOperation uh agreement with to the data brokers when we are sending A A removal request to them and we are asking them, please puts this persons um uh in personal information of impressionism, so their their data is not going reappear again under sweep sites because this is very free frequent practice that once you remove the data is very often I gets like be puts back on. So because they are scraping this information again from different websites and different services, uh so once your honest depressions alist uh, there is a guarantee that you're not gonna reappear on this data brokers this again, meaning your data is not gonna be sold .

yeah which is so that that we want. I mean, thanks for showing up and things should be in here all the way from lisa I yes, to phoenix zona through the power, the internet. Great job as always. You always welcome back to familia.

Thank you. And so here's the deal.

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I did. And then all of the something like, no, I have a life. I have things that I need to do.

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